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  • Fiji/Tonga: Letter on the Minerva Reef issue Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 12:10AMIt is always refreshing after we sat down to reflect what have been developing after my first letter titled the Pacific Diplomacy. Much water has gone under proverbial bridge and the called for the Pacific Way may be too late too little.
  • Latest Report on North American Industrial Pollution Reveals Impacts on our Shared Water Environment Monday, April 11, 2011 @ 11:00PMMONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - 04/12/11) - -- Over 228 million kilograms of direct pollutant releases to surface waters were reported by industrial facilities in North America in 2006. -- In addition to direct releases to water, a minimum of 133 million kilograms of pollutants were transferred to sewage and/or wastewater treatment systems. -- Ninety percent of reported volumes released to ...
  • Rand McNally's "Moving America" Kicks Off at Mid-America Trucking Show Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 8:30AMAs a way to say "thank you" to the professional drivers who keep America moving, Rand McNally has kicked off a five-month long trucker appreciation tour featuring two trucks with custom-built trailers that will visit Pilot and Flying J travel centers from coast-to-coast.
  • Patriarch Partners' Portfolio Company Rand McNally Receives Women's Business Enterprise National Certification Tuesday, February 15, 2011 @ 9:14AMSKOKIE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Patriarch Partners' Portfolio Company Rand McNally Receives Women's Business Enterprise National Certification
  • Patriarch Partners' Portfolio Company Rand McNally Receives Women's Business Enterprise National Certification Tuesday, February 15, 2011 @ 9:00AMRand McNally, the iconic map, direction and travel content provider has received national certification as a Women's Business Enterprise by the Women's Business Development Center-Chicago Certification Committee, a regional certifying partner of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council .
  • New revelations about slaves and slave trade Wednesday, January 5, 2011 @ 12:54PMMost students of American history understand that a dramatic re-peopling of North and South America began in the years after Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World. But they may not realize that it was Africa, not Europe, that formed the wellspring of this repopulation process.
  • Updated Map from CEC Shows Newest Terrestrial Protected Areas in North America Wednesday, November 17, 2010 @ 12:11PMCommission for Environmental Cooperation CEC has released updates to its Terrestrial Protected Areas 2010 map and database as part of its initiative to harmonize environmental data for Canada, Mexico and the United States. Marking the International Year of Biodiversity and the 125th anniversary of Banff National Park, Canada's first such creation, the latest map from the North American ...
  • Fast broadband for all - EUbusiness Week 502 Friday, September 24, 2010 @ 4:41AMPublisher's Note ================ The Commission has announced a package of measures to give every European access to fast broadband by 2020. These include a Recommendation to boost competition among telecom operators; a proposal to ensure radio spectrum availability for wireless broadband; and a Communication to spur investment in high-speed networks.
  • Rise and shine: Atlas 5 rocket successfully soars at dawn Saturday, August 14, 2010 @ 7:50AMA sophisticated satellite was launched into space today to improve the preeminent path of communications between the president, military commanders and troops on the battlefield, ensuring a survivable line of contact even in hellish scenarios of nuclear warfare.
  • Discovery: The county’s true center Sunday, May 9, 2010 @ 2:23AMPLEASANT HILL — Folks don’t pile out of cars at Elijah Bristow State Park so they can photograph each other standing on the spot. No plaques make note of it. And no kitschy kiosks have sprung up to sell T-shirts commemorating it. But if such shirts did exist, here’s what …
  • Vermont Launches Renewable Energy Atlas Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 2:01AMThe Renewable Energy Atlas of Vermont, a state-of-the-art GIS-based web application that identifies, analyzes, and visualizes existing and promising locations for renewable energy projects. The Atlas is the first tool of its kind in the United States to enable users to choose their town or county and then select from a suite of renewable energy options including biomass, efficiency, geothermal ...
  • Letters Wednesday, April 7, 2010 @ 2:01PMThanks much for the short piece on Brian Ellis (“Boundless,” Music, April 1). One thing I have learned from decades of reading music journalism is that performers who publicly disrespect the Beatles are often trying to overcompensate for their own deficiencies, so I suspect that you have saved me some time and trouble.
  • Premier Atlas Provides Unprecedented View of the Earth Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 4:57PMNo one has ever tried to collect everything we know about our natural habitats on planet Earth – until now. (PRWeb Apr 7, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/The_Atlas_of/Global_Conservation/prweb3839504.htm
  • Premier Atlas Provides Unprecedented View of the Earth Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 10:43AMNo one has ever tried to collect everything we know about our natural habitats on planet Earth – until now.
  • NOAA Launches Interactive Marine Protected Areas Mapping Tool Tuesday, March 30, 2010 @ 9:11AMNOAA’s National Marine Protected Areas Center has created a new interactive online mapping tool that, for the first time, allows users to view boundaries and access data for more than a thousand marine protected areas (MPAs) in the United States.
  • You, Too Can Find Missing Russian Spacecraft Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 11:10PMOn Monday, NASA released the complete set of science data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera’s first six months of observations, consisting of more than 100,000 lunar images. Straight away, Phil Stooke from the University of Western Ontario began scanning the images to help find a "missing" Russian rover on the lunar surface, the [...]
  • TeleCommunication Systems and Tele Atlas Sign Global Agreement Monday, February 15, 2010 @ 1:30AMBARCELONA, Spain----Tele Atlas, the world leader in high quality digital maps and dynamic content, and TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. , a world leader in high availability and secure mobile communication technology, announced an expanded agreement through which TCS will have access to Tele Atlas’ comprehensive global maps to power its range of wireless offerings.
  • TomTom rolls out low-cost GPS navigation in the US called EASE Wednesday, January 6, 2010 @ 1:08PMThe TomTom Start, available in Europe, is now coming to the United States as the TomTom EASE, which will serve as the company's entry-level device.
  • LOOK: Cartography of the Strange Wednesday, October 28, 2009 @ 5:34PM At its most basic level, the map is a utilitarian device that clearly explains a given geography. At its most adventurous, the map embodies our innately human desire to know what is over the next hill, and the hill after that one, and it tells the stories of how we relate to each other. In that spirit, cartographers both amateur and professional have been embellishing the form over the years ...
  • ESRI Map Book Features Collection of International Infrastructure Projects Tuesday, October 27, 2009 @ 2:28PMGIS for Building and Managing Infrastructure, the latest book from ESRI Press, presents maps from nine countries and 57 organizations, illustrating the versatility of geographic information system technology when applied to physical systems and complex operations.
  • Google Maps Ditches Tele Atlas in Favor of Street View Cars and Crowdsourcing Monday, October 12, 2009 @ 11:15AMAfter a flurry of activity around Google Maps over the last few weeks, it now looks like Google is also ditching Tele Atlas as its data provider for Google Maps in the US in favor of a do-it-yourself approach. Google had been using data from Tele Atlas' maps since September 2008 after moving away from Navteq's data after Navteq was acquired by Nokia. Now, Google will use its own data , which it ...
  • TomTom Expands to Mexico Wednesday, October 7, 2009 @ 11:30PMMEXICO CITY--TomTom, the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps with over 30 million users worldwide, today announces that it is expanding into Mexico.
  • *vwd/BUSINESS WIRE: TomTom Expands to Mexico Wednesday, October 7, 2009 @ 8:12AMMITTEILUNG UEBERMITTELT VON BUSINESS WIRE. FUER DEN INHALT IST ALLEIN DAS BERICHTENDE UNTERNEHMEN VERANTWORTLICH.
  • TomTom Expands to Mexico Wednesday, October 7, 2009 @ 8:00AMMEXICO CITY----TomTom, the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps with over 30 million users worldwide, today announces that it is expanding into Mexico. TomTom will enter the market with three products: the premium TomTom GO 630, the mid-range TomTom XL 330S and the entry-level TomTom ONE 130.
  • New Telecom Mapping and Analysis Package Creates Detailed Maps of Broadband Gaps Friday, August 14, 2009 @ 5:05PMREDLANDS, Calif., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A new software and data package from ESRI will help U.S. broadband service providers and telecommunications companies analyze broadband market opportunities as they prepare to apply for federal broadband stimulus funding.
  • Popular business directory searches Monday, June 8, 2009 @ 10:52PMWELLING — A visitor to the home of Don and Joyce Varner, seeing the feeders by the side of the house and the owl carved from a tree trunk, is served notice that serious birders live here.
  • First comprehensive geological Arctic map published Friday, May 15, 2009 @ 12:37PMCanada has unveiled the first comprehensive Arctic atlas, detailing geological features that point to where oil and gas, gold and diamond deposits are likely hidden beneath snow and ice.
  • The joy of bird-watching Sunday, March 22, 2009 @ 8:30AMWELLING, Okla. - A visitor to the home of Don and Joyce Varner, seeing the feeders by the side of the house and the owl carved from a tree trunk, is served notice that serious birders live here.
  • New Year's travel resolution: Tips for pinching those pennies Saturday, January 24, 2009 @ 1:29AMIf one of your resolutions for 2009 is to save more money, consider these penny-pinching travel tips:
  • East Bay Events Calendar: Thursday, December 4, 2008 @ 12:24PMMario Savio Memorial Lecture “Our Environmental Destiny” with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at 7 p.m. at Berkeley Community Theater, 1930 Allston Way. Free. 707-823-7293.